Is Schindler’s List a true story?

Schindler’s list is a 1993 American historical drama written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the 1982 non-fiction novel, Schindler’s Ark by Australian novelist, Thomas Kennedy.

The film follows Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in its factories during World War II.

It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Goth and Ben Kingsley as Schindler’s Jewish accountant, Itzhak Stern.

Is Schindler’s List a true story?

Keneally’s best-known work, Schindler’s Ark (1982; also published as Schindler’s List; film 1993), tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than 1,300 Jews from the Nazis.